Recursive flag needs fixing 2.4.7pre1

Jie Gao J.Gao at isu.usyd.edu.au
Sat Aug 25 14:32:19 EST 2001


On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Eric Whiting wrote:

> Try the -r option (or the --recurse) option instead.
>
> It looks like the source changed to this:
>
> options.c: {"recurse", 'r', POPT_ARG_NONE,   &recurse},
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> But the help is still at:
>
> options.c:  rprintf(F," -r, --recursive   recurse into
> directories\n");

Now I've got this:

/etc/local/rsync_webct_cron.sh

produced the following output:

rsync: --device: unknown option
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(739)

Regards,



Jie

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> Jie Gao wrote:
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> > rsync: --recursive: unknown option
> > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(739)
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> > The script:
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> > #! /bin/sh
> > /usr/local/bin/rsync --verbose  --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/local/bin/ssh \
> >                      --owner --group --recursive --times --perms --links --delete \
> >                      --device --hard-links --exclude "*bak" --exclude "*~" \
> >                      /opt/mydir host_b:/opt
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> > What's going on?
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> > Jie
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> __________________________________________________________________
> Eric T. Whiting					AMI Semiconductors
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